Invasion History

First Non-native Panama (Pacific) Tidal Record: 1974

Panama Invasion History:

Invasion history elsewhere in the world:

None

Description

None

Taxonomy

Taxonomic Tree

Kingdom:   Animalia
Phylum:   Arthropoda
Subphylum:   Crustacea
Class:   Malacostraca
Subclass:   Eumalacostraca
Superorder:   Eucarida
Order:   Decapoda
Suborder:   Pleocyemata
Infraorder:   Caridea
Family:   Palaemonidae
SubFamily:   Palaemoninae
Genus:   Leander
Species:   paulensis

Synonyms

Palaemon paulensis (Rathbun, 1901)

Potentially Misidentified Species

Leander tenuicornis
None

Ecology

Trophic Status:

Omnivore

Omni

Habitats

General HabitatGrass BedNone
General HabitatUnstructured BottomNone
Salinity RangePolyhaline18-30 PSU
Salinity RangeEuhaline30-40 PSU
Tidal RangeSubtidalNone
Vertical HabitatEpibenthicNone
Vertical HabitatNektonicNone

Tolerances and Life History Parameters

Minimum Salinity (‰)16Field, Florida Bay (Manning 1961)
Maximum Salinity (‰)36Field, Ubabtuba, Brazil (Da Costa et al. 2000)
Minimum Length (mm)28.4(Manning 1961)
Broad Temperature RangeNoneSubtropical-Tropical
Broad Salinity RangeNonePolyhaline-Euhaline

General Impacts

Regional Distribution Map

Bioregion Region Name Year Invasion Status Population Status Vectors
PAN_PAC Panama Pacific Coast 1974 Non-native Unknown
PAN_CAR Panama Caribbean Coast Native Established

Occurrence Map

OCC_ID Author Year Date Locality Status Latitude Longitude

References

Abele, Lawrence G.; Kim, Won (1986) An illustrated guide to the marine decapod crustaceans of Florida, State of Florida Department of Environmental Regulation Technical Series 8(1): 1-225

Abele, Lawrence G.; Kim, Won (1989) The decapod crustaceans of the Panama Canal, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 482: 1-50

da Costa, Rogerio Caetano; Ransozo, Adilson F; Mantelatto, Fernando Luis Medina; Castro, Rodrigo Hebeller (2000) Occurrence of shrimp species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Natantia: Penaeidea and Caridea) in Ubatuba Bay, Ubatuba, SP, Brazil, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 113: 776-781

Humara-Gil, Karla J.; Cruz-Gil, Christopher (2019) First record of the non-indigenous bryozoan Amathia verticillata (delle Chiaje, 1822) (Bryozoa, Vesiculariidae) in the southern Mexican Pacific, Check List 15(3): 515-522

Rathbun, Mary J. (1901) The Brachyura and Macrura of Porto Rico, Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 20(2): 1-127